{"id":29,"date":"2006-08-20T12:45:40","date_gmt":"2006-08-20T12:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/?p=29"},"modified":"2006-08-20T22:35:08","modified_gmt":"2006-08-20T22:35:08","slug":"unintentionally-outrageous-urls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/2006\/08\/unintentionally-outrageous-urls\/","title":{"rendered":"Unintentionally Outrageous URLs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"The Top 10 Unintentionally Worst Company URLs\" href=\"http:\/\/independentsources.com\/2006\/07\/12\/worst-company-urls\/\">This post<\/a> at Independent Sources reminds me of how kera.name came to be &#8212; as a typo. I decided &#039;kera&#039; would be the name for my new website and for my new hard drive, even though it&#039;s a misspelling of Kara, the BSG character  from which I drew inspiration.<\/p>\n<p>Lucky for me, though, I actually prefer &#039;Kera&#039; and my sticking with it hasn&#039;t led to any horrendously embarassing situations.<\/p>\n<p>One can&#039;t say the same for these companies who didn&#039;t think their choices through all too clearly.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>A site called \u00e2\u20ac\u02dc<strong>Who Represents<\/strong>\u00e2\u20ac\u02dc where you can find the name of the agent that represents a celebrity. Their domain name\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 wait for it\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 is<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.whorepresents.com\/\"><strong>www.whorepresents.com<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Experts Exchange<\/strong>, a knowledge base where programmers can exchange advice and views at<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.expertsexchange.com\/\"><strong>www.expertsexchange.com<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Looking for a pen? Look no further than <strong>Pen Island <\/strong>at<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.penisland.net\/\"><strong>www.penisland.net<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Need a therapist? Try <strong>Therapist Finder<\/strong> at<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.therapistfinder.com\/\"><strong>www.therapistfinder.com<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Then of course, there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the<strong> Italian Power Generator<\/strong> company\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.powergenitalia.com\/\"><strong>www.powergenitalia.com<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li>And now, we have the <strong>Mole Station Native Nursery,<\/strong> based in New South Wales:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.molestationnursery.com\/\"><strong>www.molestationnursery.com<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li>If you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re looking for computer software, there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s always<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ipanywhere.com\/\"><strong>www.ipanywhere.com<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Welcome to the <strong>First Cumming Methodist Church<\/strong>. Their website is<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cummingfirst.com\/\"><strong>www.cummingfirst.com<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Then, of course, there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s these brainless art designers, and their whacky website:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.speedofart.com\/\"><strong>www.speedofart.com<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Want to holiday in <strong>Lake Tahoe<\/strong>? Try their brochure website at<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gotahoe.com\/\"><strong>www.gotahoe.com<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Hee hee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some horrendously embarassing situations for companies who didn&#039;t think through their choices of website URL all too clearly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[3],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}